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Improvement in Cotton-Presses.
Patent for an improvement to cotton presses, including an illustration.
Date:
July 29, 1879
Creator:
Lively, Mark C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Feed Mechanisms for Running Saw-Mills.
Patent for improvement to feed mechanisms in running saw-mills, including illustrations.
Date:
July 29, 1879
Creator:
Fisher, Charles N.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Picking Shade.
Patent for a cotton-picking shade that will furnish a portable shade or shield for the use of cotton-pickers to protect them from the direct rays of the sun while at work.
Date:
July 22, 1879
Creator:
Benthall, John C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in cane-strippers.
Patent for an improvement in sugar-cane stripping machines, using an arrangement of rollers and a movable spring blade. Includes illustrations.
Date:
July 22, 1879
Creator:
James, Robert C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Car-Couplings.
Patent for an improvement to car couplings which would "obviate the necessity and its attendant danger of going between the cars" (lines 17-18) including an illustration.
Date:
July 22, 1879
Creator:
Ahrenbeck, C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Gin-Saw Cleaners.
Patent for improvement in cotton-gin-saw cleaners used in cotton ginning processes, including illustration.
Date:
July 22, 1879
Creator:
Munger, Robert S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Processes for Packing Shingles.
Patent for improvement in processes for packing shingles "in such a manner that they shall quickly dry and be prevented from molding" (lines 13-15).
Date:
July 22, 1879
Creator:
Russell, Robert B. & Russell, Henry H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Coolers for Railroad-Car Journals.
Patent relating to "an apparatus for cooling the journals and boxes of railroad-cars and other vehicles" (lines 27-29). Includes instructions and illustration.
Date:
July 15, 1879
Creator:
Morris, Robert C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Odometers.
Patent for an improvement to odometers used for measuring distance traveled in motor vehicles.
Date:
July 15, 1879
Creator:
Richardson, John D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Running-Gears for Wagons.
Patent for an improvement to running-gears for wagons, including "improved means for connecting the front axle and reach of a wagon or other vehicle" (lines 6-8) and illustrations.
Date:
July 15, 1879
Creator:
Fowler, Joseph C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Spark-Arresters.
Patent for improved construction of spark-arresters, "so that they will be more efficient, and yet simple in construction and not liable to get out of repair; and the invention consists of a metallic circular cone, with winding or arched flanges or wings, which extend toward the side of the shall, and they are covered by a plate, to the upper side of which a perforated cylinder is attached, so that all the sparks are arrested and thoroughly extinguished, while the smoke can pass out through the perforations." (Lines 6-16) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 15, 1879
Creator:
Lochner, Casper F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Force-Pumps.
Patent relating to "that class of force-pumps which are to be submerged and are double-acting" (lines 17-19). Includes instructions and illustration.
Date:
July 8, 1879
Creator:
Finney, James J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Machines for Cutting Shingles.
Patent relating to "that class of shingle-machines which form the shingles by means of a knife working sidewise with the grain" (lines 10-13). Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 8, 1879
Creator:
Davis, Henry T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Quilting-Frames.
Patent relating to improvement "of quilting-frames made with folding ends and adjustable in width" (lines 10-12). Includes instructions and illustration.
Date:
July 8, 1879
Creator:
Davis, Henry T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Buckles.
Patent relating to "improvements in harness-buckles" (lines 17-18) including instructions and illustration.
Date:
July 1, 1879
Creator:
Carnes, William J., Jr.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Devices for Securing Buckles, &c., to Straps.
Patent relating to "an improved device for securing buckles, rings, and similar articles to straps" (lines 8-10) including instructions and illustration.
Date:
July 1, 1879
Creator:
Barrow, Benjamin F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Pumps.
Patent relating to "improvements in double-acting pumps. The object is to devise a pump...[so] as to allow the admission of water at one end of and its discharge at the other" (lines 16-24). Includes instructions and illustration.
Date:
July 1, 1879
Creator:
Garlock, William H. & Cooke, Richard
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Steam-Engines.
Patent related to "improvements in steam-engines. The object...is to devise means whereby the valves may be actuated automatically without the employment of exterior mechanisms by the use of exhaust-steam" (lines 17-22). Includes instructions and illustration.
Date:
July 1, 1879
Creator:
Garlock, William H. & Cooke, Richard
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Wrenches.
Patent for furnishing "an adjustable wrench for holding and turning bolts, pipes, taps, &c." (lines 7-9). Includes instructions and illustration.
Date:
July 1, 1879
Creator:
Killough, William B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Churn-Motors
Patent for an improvement in churn-motors, which would allow for the motor to run faster or slower as needed, with illustration.
Date:
July 30, 1878
Creator:
Alexander, Julius A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Hame-Fastenings.
Patent for improvements in economical and durable hame-fastening.
Date:
July 30, 1878
Creator:
Flatau, Louis S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Pumps.
Patent for improvement in the means by which cotton plants are watered, protected from pesticides and fires. It provides for a mechanism by which poison and water may be more easily distributed to the plants.
Date:
July 30, 1878
Creator:
Helmecke, Friederich Andreas
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Brick-Machines.
Patent for improvements the process of molding moist clay into brick.
Date:
July 23, 1878
Creator:
Kennedy, Lewis B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Railway-Tracks.
Patent for improvements in the adjoining of railway tracks.
Date:
July 23, 1878
Creator:
Cottingham, Gideon W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History